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I've got the majority of stuff working fairly well on my dell d830 laptop, with a couple exceptions, one being the 3d graphics eye-candy $bling$ that can be accomplished with compiz fusion or beryl or the built in desktop effects that are available under the system tab in f7.

I have been looking online at lots of differing methods to get the cube desktop (etc) to work but I'm not having much luck. Here's what I have so far...

(note that I'm using the 1680x1050 lcd driver but I do not have that resolution available)
--disregard this I think that 1280x800 is the max supported resolution on this chipset.

from /root/.xesssion-errors
localuser:root being added to access control list
SESSION_MANAGER=local/id10t:/tmp/.ICE-unix/3320
compiz: No stencil buffer. Clipping of transformed windows is not going to be correct when screen is transformed.
** Message: Could not connect to power manager: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.PowerManager': no such name
error getting update info: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: %s. Please verify its path and try again

I tried to yum install intel-agp but no packages were found, I'm confused because i915 is a driver for an older chipset than I have, mine is a i965GM, which supposedly is the first chipset to have all this fancy support for linux distros, but it's a total pain in my ass to get working.

Well, I know i915 is used for the 915/945 chipsets, but I'm not sure that will apply to the 965 series.

The only thing I think think of is install any mesa packages and install the xorg-x11-drv-i810 package. Since I noticed that this package still points to "i810", if 3D still doesn't work after installing those packages, then try pointing the Driver in your xorg.conf to "i810".

I am using 965GM, is working fine, and yes i915 is the kernel module you need.

Try set your AccelMethod to "EXA". Maybe what works for me will work for you.

that's interesting information, I"m currently running 8 test 2 on the laptop and I'm happy to say that there is full support for the 965GM chip set included in it, all the 3d stuff is working great, out of the box.

I don't know if I'm going to fall back to f7 but if I do I will try this resolve.

that's interesting information, I"m currently running 8 test 2 on the laptop and I'm happy to say that there is full support for the 965GM chip set included in it, all the 3d stuff is working great, out of the box.

I don't know if I'm going to fall back to f7 but if I do I will try this resolve.